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    <body><![CDATA[First, I am a big fan of Ryunosuke Akutagawa. <br/><br/>Second, Akutagawa himself has been acknowledged as one of the greatest Japanese writers. <br/><br/>Third, the story &quot;Rashomon&quot; has been admitted as the best story Akutagawa ever wrote. That's why Akira Kurosawa transfered the stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34950167">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Six deceptively simple stories from Japan's leading short story author. It's hard to believe that he wrote many of these in his early to mid twenties. Without burdening description, Akutagawa can probe psychological realms that startle even the seasoned reader. A novel from him would have been welco...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67720164">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've gone through a number of these stories now and enjoyed each one tremendously; he comes across to me a lot like the proto-absurd, tragicomic Japanese Gogol (but maybe it's Akutagawa's own &quot;Nose&quot; that makes me think so). I didn't get to all of the stories in this edition but hope to dip...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7796613">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a quick and enjoyable read.  I hesitate to call them spare, because there is some beautiful description.  Instead I'll say that the prose is very clean and lacking in excessive description.<br/><br/>What is most enjoyable about these stories is the moral complexity of the characters.  The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79600803">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <name><![CDATA[Leonardo]]></name>
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    <![CDATA[Dueño de un arte sutil y no exento de crueldad, Akutagawa conformó con su obra un universo asfixiante y bello a la vez. Jorge Luis Borges, quien fue uno de sus nás entusiastas lectores en América, consideraba sus cuentos como &quot;encantadores y aveces terribles&quot;.]]>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantasmas... asesinatos... locura... seres mitológicos... narices descomunales... Todo esto y más forma parte de este libro inquietante, pleno de relatos de engañosa sencillez, con algo más que un guiño a la tradición de cuentos de fantasmas japonesas, pero con variantes que no podrían haber ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69841459">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Akutagawa Ryunosuke is one of the giants of modern Japanese literature.  <em>Rashomon and Other Stories</em> is a collection of strange and exquisite tales that takes place in worlds beyound.  Akutagawa's erudition and skill of the pen is truly remarkable.  He is thought to have been one of the most well-rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44485075">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Perfectly translated new edition of famous classical stories as &quot;Rashomon,&quot; &quot;In a Bamboo grove,&quot; &quot;The Nose,&quot; &quot;Dragon,&quot; &quot;Hell Screen&quot; and &quot;The Spider's Thread.&quot; Akutagawa used to be only available in somewhat antiquated translations, so this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31556482">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and 17 Other Stories (Penguin, 2006)<br/><br/>I'll admit I picked this up less because it was Akutagawa than the bit that said “illustrated by Yoshihiro Tatsumi”, who's been one of the best in the business for over thirty years. When I actually got it, I found out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21086606">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, but...<br/><br/> Yes. I did it. I've committed one of the ultimate literary sacrileges of all time. I read Akutagawa Ryunosuke in translation when I could have read it in original Japanese. I am guilty as charged; there is no question about it. I just couldn't resist a book with such a cool ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9860197">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There is more than a little bit of Gogol's ideas here, as Akutagawa admits in his own madman's diary, The Life of a Stupid Man.  Yet for all the personal tragedy noted in his chronology and appearing throughout his works, there is still two qualities that make his works admired by many: professional...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7834518">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked it enough to keep reading every night after I should have gone to sleep, cutting into my precious sleeping hours. The story Rashomon is haunting, and the backdrop of the samurai period gone to seed is creepy and unlike anything I'd previously thought about Japan. We just saw Memoirs of a Gei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2104012">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty short collection of ancient Japanese fiction. Rashomon is great story about evil begetting evil, and some of the other stories herein I had never heard of, but enjoyed reading. The styles of some of these older Japanese stories are really disjointed; they seem to break off very quickly after ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21692734">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you enjoyed those ((Even)More) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books as a kid and wish you could still read them without looking like a total idiot, then by all means read this book.  These &quot;macabre&quot; tales use all the same set-ups and plot devices and language as those cheesy stories ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80249150">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[if you watched and enjoyed kurosawa's <em>Rashomon</em>, it's worth reading this translation of the story it's based on (which, incidentally, is named &quot;In a Budding Grove&quot; - &quot;Rashomon&quot; is something else). i don't know how heartily i can recommend the book overall, though. the middle stori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/531826">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bought this because I needed one more book to push my Book Off purchase over $30 and get the discount.  That said, this is a good collection of Akutagawa short stories.  I especially enjoyed &quot;In a Grove&quot; and &quot;Kesa and Morito.&quot;  It was also hard not to like the Dragon, since I hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69522326">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Provavelmente daria cinco estrelas se só tivesse lido os primeiros três quartos. A coisa começou a ir ladeira abaixo com o conto da mocinha garçonete, que seria genial, crítica aos críticos inclusive, se essa crítica não tivesse sido feita de um jeito tão prepotente; e o problema não é ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48280477">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this collection of short stories. Akutagawa had an amazing mind and it's just great to get inside of it a bit and see how he viewed the world, but it's very sad to think about how things ended up for him, and all the pains he had to endure throughout his life.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These are some of the best short stories I've ever read anywhere. Each one is like a concise snapshot into the nuances and frailties of human existence. I have literally spent more time reflecting over each story than it took to read the story itself.]]></body>
    
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